Help Channel Translation aka clueless noobs

[Apeking]

"how i make tank go"

The other one is rockets. People always want to know how to fire rockets. The problem with the help channel is that most people who have played the game for a while have mapped the controls to their joystick, and so they can't remember the keyboard buttons for secondary fire etc.

This gentle ribbing is part of the process of growing up. Aces High is not a friendly game. It is not Darfur is Dying or The Sims. It is a game in which you have to hunt down and destroy the other players; blast them out of the sky and off the face of the earth, repeatedly, until they learn. It is a game in which middle-aged men fight against children and vice versa. It's not Little Computer People.

[lambo31]

I tune to the help channel on a regular basis although I don't pay much attention to it. Once in a while I catch some of it. Most of the time it's new people telling other new people what thier doing or telling others where to meet. Some of it is just new people being new and trying to introduce thier self to the community on the only channel they currently know how to use. Sure, some of it is giving out TOP SECRET INFO that is going to be the down fall of thier country. Some need to be directed to the training arena or the help page via the clipboard.  But once in a while it's some one that really has a valid question that only takes a quick reply to have them on thier way.

What gets me is a kind reply can usually take care of every thing that comes across the help channel and yet there is a vet/new person portraying to be a vet that wants to reply with a smart remark that does nothing in the manner of helping.


Lambo

[Nilsen]

You guys show a lack of respect for excellent targets!

[BaldEagl]

I don't tune to the help channel but when I hear those "how do I raise my gear, how do I raise my flaps, where are the dive brakes" questions I just tell them to go to set-up, keyboard map at any time if they don't know the control keys.  Usually I get a thank you and no further questions.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by loony1
That one is the best of all....every noob i have ever seen immediately needs or wants a gunner:rofl

Guilty as charged

I used to try and help people out when I played...  These types of games are TOUGH and if it weren't for patient folks many years ago I certainly wouldn't have stuck with it.

Then again I don't even know if that's so true...  I started off on AWIII and had about a year worth of playing offline in the missions before I ever set foot online.

I still stunk, but at least I knew the buttons.  I wonder if any of the old trainers noticed less of the basic basic questions back in the day than now?

[Reynolds]

Okay, driving vehicles and the different text boxes are valid questions. I came here and read up before my first venture into AH, and the two things I couldnt find mentioned were:

How to drive vehicles

How to permanently switch channels.

Fortunately I was also smart in going to the training arena before the MAs, but really, tanks arent self explanatory, and it took me about 5 minutes to figure out how to permanently select one channel instead ofhaving to click the icon next to it. Granted,a ll of the others, especially which plane is best I answer with either alt + f4, alt + tab, shift 5 times, or just calling them impatient little children and telling them to read the instructions. However some of the one you mention ARE valid questions.

[TW9]

What is the training channel?

[Meatwad]

If a total noob is being too retaded, I have fun.

One sent me a join request in the tower. Since I cant fly the tower, I just upped an IL-2 then accepted him. We took a slow flight around the AF.

Then theres the one that ask for gunners about once every 10 seconds. Those are my favorite to drive insane. I spawn a goon and type the sccept message. We go off on our merry little way and since he dont have a gun, gotta be bored outta of his mind.


Then Alt+F4 is my answer to the ones that wont read the help section after being told by about 4 people

[Silat]

Originally posted by Vudak
Guilty as charged

I used to try and help people out when I played...  These types of games are TOUGH and if it weren't for patient folks many years ago I certainly wouldn't have stuck with it.

Then again I don't even know if that's so true...  I started off on AWIII and had about a year worth of playing offline in the missions before I ever set foot online.

I still stunk, but at least I knew the buttons.  I wonder if any of the old trainers noticed less of the basic basic questions back in the day than now?

Vudak would you please stop asking me questions:)

[TW9]

Originally posted by TW9
What is the training channel?

well??

[Schatzi]

Originally posted by TW9
well??

Channel 6 - Orange.

You need help on how to tune it?

[skycaptn]

easier solution to annoying noobs, not the standard noobs but, rather the type that annoy you till you want them dead.

And remember.. squelching them just allows them to annoy others.. so consider it your civic duty to handle this stituation  yourself.

First repeat their question back to them.

Then begin with a long answer that almost but not quiet answers their question.

at this point they will reword their question.

Now is when you strike... answer thier question with words to the effect of delete your account and go back to playing xbox "hello kitty island adventure"

The response will usually be foul.
report them.
AHII is cleansed again and you have done your civic duty.

[scottydawg]

Originally posted by Schatzi
Channel 6 - Orange.

You need help on how to tune it?

It's ALT-F4 to tune.

[4deck]

I took some lancs up, and was getting lined up on target, when the PLIN*PLING*PLING starts while im in scope mode. Well I really dont have too much time to fart around, so I put a request for a gunner. What a mistake. As Im calibrating, I hear the guns going off. I jusp back to the pilots position for sec, so I can go outside and look around. I see rounds going out the nose. WTF no targets there. I get on the mic, hey dood what are you doing on range. No response. THe little bastage emptied all my ammo in every gun and split. .

Theres another time, and I think I got it recorded, we were under serious attack, and it was late, so I just upped some buffs for target practice, when i get this request to join, ah wtf why not. Well this dood didnt have a mic, so I start yelling get out of my plane, he didnt so I just augered. reupped. Then got another gunner with a mic. I think we took 3 out in 2 mins



Cheers

[Mustaine]

you know for the first time in my AH carrer i felt bad shooting someone down...


some guy with like 40 sorties under his belt, 2 lands, 1 or 2 kills and the rest deaths comes into an undefended base (about 2 AM CST) in a hurricane 1 and starts strafing the town.


i PM'd him he might want to try a different plane for that role, 'd then i had to log for the night...

i felt bad and for a minute or 2 almost switched to rooks, and was going to look him up and try and help him... but it was 2AM + and i was really tired.


for all the time i have been in AH i do know there are many many out there with no clue about alot of aspects of the game (i mean just things like what convergence is, salvo and delay, what different ammo loads do on certain planes, information you can get on the map and how to read it, some of the simplest things many vets take for granted "everyone knows that")